Whereas 47% of people used to get social housing eligibility or support, this has dropped to 33%, which is a massive stealth cut in housing support made available by the Government. In addition, the Land Develo…

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has to balance that cost with the cost of providing badly needed funding for University Hospital Limerick, childcare, a matter raised by Deputy Gannon, and many co…

The proposal is for an EU directive on minimum common standards in member states to protect individuals and bodies, particularly journalists and human rights defenders, against the type of manifestly unfounded …

Amendments are also proposed to extend section 37L of the Planning and Development Act, which currently allows simultaneous applications for any future development to An Bord Pleanála and applications for subst…

I move amendment No. 1: “In page 3, line 12, after “Act” to insert “(other than section 5)”.” Amendment No. 1 is a consequential amendment required as a result of the amendment inserting the contraception provi…

These three amendments are no longer required because they are technical amendments relating to three substantive amendments that were ruled out of order.…

Amendments Nos. 25, 36 and 40 propose to give an coimisiún new additional functions in reviewing the electoral system, constituencies and franchise for Seanad Éireann as well as the criteria by which the Taoise…

We must put foundations into the redress scheme now and stop going around in circles by wasting money on engineers' fees to look at different foundations.…

Considering we intend for the HEA board to be a competency-based board and not to define its membership as an academic or trade union member or the likes, I therefore do not see why I would define "academic mem…

The Minister rightly says people understand the matter to be about academics being free in their academic areas, but I am saying that academic freedom, if it is to make sense, is freedom of academic pursuit and…

It would actually create certainty if people were to know that there is a fixed sunset clause in this legislation, and that the legislation will cease to be. That decision was on legislation at European level b…

In relation to this amendment, the Bill provides for new functions of school patrons, schools and boards of management in co-operating with the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, particularly in the …

As drafted, section 36 specifies An Garda Síochána and the coroner must be notified by a director where evidence emerges that human remains were buried in the principal burial land following death in violent or…

The Government indicated on Second Stage it would not oppose this Bill but would instead conduct its own research in to the prevalence of the use of non-disclosure agreements, NDAs, in cases such as this. In Ma…

The matters raised by Deputies Funchion, Tully, O'Sullivan and Stanton have been selected for discussion.…

• Departmental Programmes — Kathleen Funchion SF
• Health Services — Pauline Tully SF
• Health Services Staff — Pádraig O'Sullivan FF
• An Garda Síochána — David Stanton FG

Second, for low-income families and for those on fixed incomes, we want the Government to increase the back-to-school allowance by 50% to help meet the soaring costs of getting children back to school. In the b…

I have also received notice from Senator Malcolm Byrne of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Justice to make a statement on her Department’s role in determining criteria for health insurance fo…

Thursday's business shall be: - Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad] (Second stage, resumed, if not previously concluded) (to conclude within 220 minutes in total between Wednesday an…

• Defence Forces — Fiona O'Loughlin FF
• Early Childhood Care and Education — Marie Sherlock LAB
• Special Educational Needs — Garret Ahearn FG
• International Students — Malcolm Byrne FF
• Tax Code — Mary Fitzpatrick FF
• Special Areas of Conservation — Aisling Dolan FG